Tiki Archeology Challenge - Place This Mystery Moai - General Tiki

T TIKIBOSKO Tiki Socialite Joined: Oct 17, 2004 Posts: 336	T TIKIBOSKO Posted posted on Thu, Oct 14, 2010 10:54 AM Aloha Sabu, right off the top of my head, it looks to be a “phoenix canariensis” judging by the leaf bases remaining on the stump/ trunk and the size, they are very common here in California, but you also see a lot of them in Florida. Chip and Andy it does not look to me like it was added to the stump as that is just a huge amount of work. On the one hand I would disagree with Sven as if it was Disneyland we should have run into this piece before. On the other phoenix is terrible for caving it wouldn’t last too many years and this one is still connected to the roots meaning all kinds of rot is going to spread up into the wood shortening its life that much more rapidly. I can’t tell if that’s an agave probably CA or pandanus probably FL, both would be terrible to plant near a walk way like pictured. It looks to me like I see magenta flowers as in bouganvilla on the bottom right quarter, grows on both areas? Boris, not Wild Animal Park or the SD Zoo, no Polynesian anything there that I have ever seen. It is amazing how it was cropped just so you don’t see the one thing that that could actually place it. Hope this helps, Bosko

Aloha Sabu, right off the top of my head, it looks to be a “phoenix canariensis” judging by the leaf bases remaining on the stump/ trunk and the size, they are very common here in California, but you also see a lot of them in Florida. Chip and Andy it does not look to me like it was added to the stump as that is just a huge amount of work.
On the one hand I would disagree with Sven as if it was Disneyland we should have run into this piece before. On the other phoenix is terrible for caving it wouldn’t last too many years and this one is still connected to the roots meaning all kinds of rot is going to spread up into the wood shortening its life that much more rapidly.
I can’t tell if that’s an agave probably CA or pandanus probably FL, both would be terrible to plant near a walk way like pictured.
It looks to me like I see magenta flowers as in bouganvilla on the bottom right quarter, grows on both areas?
Boris, not Wild Animal Park or the SD Zoo, no Polynesian anything there that I have ever seen.
It is amazing how it was cropped just so you don’t see the one thing that that could actually place it.

Hope this helps,

Bosko

Post #559806 by TIKIBOSKO on Thu, Oct 14, 2010 10:54 AM